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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Heavy metal band from Boras, Sweden, formed in 2011, delivering over a decade of unadulterated heavy metal from the Vastra Gotaland region. They bring pure metallic energy to the Swedish scene.
Deathcore and brutal death metal band from Kadiivka, Ukraine, formed in 2016, delivering nearly a decade of unfiltered extremity from the Luhansk Oblast. They bring raw brutality from eastern Ukraine.
Houston's Purest are a freshly formed black metal act, emerging in 2024 with the raw, stripped-down ethos that defines the genre's underground current. Too new to have an established catalog, they represent the continued vitality of black metal in the Texas extreme music scene.
Purgamentorum hail from Southern Mississippi and play black metal in the raw, isolationist tradition — music that sounds as remote and unforgiving as the name implies, shaped by the desolation that the rural Deep South can press into a project formed in 2019. Their Bandcamp presence underscores a commitment to anonymity over accessibility.
Mitchell, Indiana's Purgatorium have been playing melodic death metal since 2017, blending the genre's twin guitar harmonies and anthemic structure with darker death metal undertones. A small-town Midwest act committed to one of extreme metal's most technically demanding subgenres.
Melodic death metal band from Tavelsjo, Sweden, formed in 2017, crafting purgatorial melodic death metal from the Vasterbotten wilderness. They bring redemptive aggression from northern Sweden.
Death and doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2024, evoking visions of the afterlife through crushing death-doom. They blend the weight of doom with death metal's aggression.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from Portugal, formed in 2026, whose Portuguese name means 'bestial purgatory.' They represent the absolute newest wave of Portuguese extreme metal.
Long Beach, California's Purging launched in 2025 as a blackened death metal act, combining the cold tremolo malice of black metal with death metal's brutality and low-register punishment. One of the newer entries in Southern California's perpetually active extreme underground.
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